Happy Birthday Dave!!!

Camels With Hammers‘s webmaster extraordinaire and occasional contributor, Dave Smith, turns 32 today. My previous forays into blogging were so fundamentally inhibited by my programming illiteracy that I can honestly say that this blog, in so many of its most successful features would simply not be possible without Dave’s volunteered efforts. He has really made it possible for me to get exactly the designs, layouts, and features for the site that I wanted in order to give the place a distinctive look and feel and to make it user-friendly in the ways that I personally find crucial in the blogs I visit. He is also as easy-going , helpful, and undemanding a guy to work with and be friends with as anyone could hope for. So, be sure to wish Dave a happy birthday in return for his efforts to make your experiences with Camels With Hammers consistently happy!

Dr. Daniel Fincke has his PhD in philosophy from Fordham University and spent 11 years teaching in college classrooms. He wrote his dissertation on Ethics and the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. On Camels With Hammers, the careful philosophy blog he writes for a popular audience, Dan argues for atheism and develops a humanistic ethical theory he calls “Empowerment Ethics”. Dan also teaches affordable, non-matriculated, video-conferencing philosophy classes on ethics, Nietzsche, historical philosophy, and philosophy for atheists that anyone around the world can sign up for. (You can learn more about Dan’s online classes here.) Dan is an APPA (American Philosophical Practitioners Association) certified philosophical counselor who offers philosophical advice services to help people work through the philosophical aspects of their practical problems or to work out their views on philosophical issues. (You can read examples of Dan’s advice here.) Through his blogging, his online teaching, and his philosophical advice services each, Dan specializes in helping people who have recently left a religious tradition work out their constructive answers to questions of ethics, metaphysics, the meaning of life, etc. as part of their process of radical worldview change.

Dave Smith

Thanks so much, Dan! I’ve had a blast working on Camels With Hammers, and it’s a great feeling to be part of building a site with such potential to reach and affect so many people; potential which has already been met to a greater extent than I had expected at just four months into the project. And more than that, thank you for your friendship over this past year. I’ve really enjoyed catching up after so long! Here’s to another great year